'All things fruit and vegetable all beetroots great and small' 10/10 Club - all welcome-

[Carotte]

For anyone who wants a boost to their general health. The suggested goals are:

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I just lost a huge post about children and dark and being scared. Sympathies, Franny, was the upshot.

I am going to bed, please god let this have improved, it's not looking promising, dark red lines.

I can't bear to watch the programme, listening to that woman give bad advice to vulnerable new parents will finish me off I think.

Night all.

MrsC go to the doctor. Have I missed the bit about why you won't?

Franny, is he frightened of the dark or being alone? If the former then won't a little night light or something do it, if the latter, don't know what to suggest. I imagine you have cuddlies etc? Perhaps this is a by-product of co-sleeping?

I don't think I can stomach that programme. I saw a trailer.

Was dd's birthday today.

I don't need to go the doctor, I have the tablets here if I need them. I spoke to a bf councellor today and she said take them if it doesn't improve in the next day or so. I want to avoid them upsetting Lo's stomach and wiping ouut his bowel flora when he has allergies. Obviously it will be worse if I get an abcess so I will take them tomorrow if there's no improvement.

I knock on ds1's door now. He hasn't asked me too it just seems a nice thinig to do as he's getting older. I would very much have liked my mother to knock on my door. She never did

ds1 quotes this line from a tv programme at me, it goes something like this: 'You are knocking on my door to show respect, but you are asserting your authority as my mother by coming in anyway'.

Very good, very true. I thought he was a genius until I realized it came from a tv programme.

Okay. Oh god. I'm so sorry MrsC. I had mastitis 3 times with dd. I felt wretched.

Happy birthday Mini100x

100, did DD have a lovely day?

Lionheart,your pics are lovely, your DC's are so gorgeous!

DS is better, on solids, and ravenous, has had a whole banana, porridge, avocado and potato in two meals today on day 6 of solids! I am a bit scared he is having too much, but honestly he screams after one portion is finished for more, desite having a BF before each 'meal', and will happily nurse afterwards too. He is filling out & happier, but I am worried about my milk supply, let don and abilty to express (time and quantity).

Can't bear to wach that baby programme as it will prob send me over the edge.

Franny, poor DS, he will get over this, and has the security of all the co sleeping & BFing you did invest in.

Yes, she did thank you.

I don't know anything about solids, or peoples reservations about them starting too early. God, I'm useless. I don't know what I've been doing for the last ten years. I think all mine started at 3 or 4 months, SIL says definitely not until 6 months - but I can't remember why.

I think I might actually be a granny not a mother.

If he's hungry, happy to eat and then to nurse afterwards, sounds pretty darn wonderful to me Wombling.

Hello again. I am deliberately not watching the baby programme as I would not like it.

I'm watching the programme and CV is making me feel slightly sick. 'Can I kiss (my new baby)?' 'No. No touching'

'I can't understand why anyone would want to pick a baby up'

Oh I would not like that programme either. I told dp in advance that I would not want to see it and not to let me. He is not letting me watch it

Franny It's awful when that happens isn't it. Hope you're ok now.

Carotte really hope things improve for you too.

LALALALA

I feel a sense of whirlwindness of DH and me coming and going this week.

Tomorrow he is taking our next door neighbour to a hospital appointment (at some very early hour) and then going and being a magistrate. As soon as he gets home I need to drive to the course again and be sociable at dinner. I will be away tomorrow and Thursday nights. We will be in on Friday night together. Then Saturday morning he has a magistrates course and on Sunday morning he is going to the Conservative party conference (not an MP ).

He'll be there until Tuesday. Then on Wednesday I go off back to course thing. And then I come back on Thursday.

I feel a little overwhelmed by it all really.

I think you will be tired Idris

The good thing is though that I will get to have some nights sleep in a big bed all on my own with no one kicking me . I am focusing on the positives.

I am not watching it either. This doesn't require too much self-control as we haven't got a tv

Thanks all for sympathies. yes he will be fine, it just turns me over to think that he was frightened and I didn't come. 100 I think the co-sleeping was more a result of the fear than the fear being a result of the co-sleeping IYSWIM. Although yes he never had to get used to being alone until he was older. I didn't see why he should get used to it tbh, he obviously hated it.

For about a year though he has been fine about going to sleep on his own and just calls out when he wants something. That was the problem, he called me, and when I didn't come, presumed I wasn't there "I thought you were never coming" He has this enormous primal angst in situations like this - once when he was about 2 I realised a friend's dd had left her cuddly toy behind at our house and ran out of the house and down the street after them to give it back. In the 2 mins before I got back again, ds was hysterical again. "I thought you had gone forever."

this makes him sound really insecure and clingy - which he isn't. But he does like to know where we are, and he does expect me to come up straight away to him if he calls at night time - that's kind of the bedrock on which we have built his security to sleep in his own room at night, I suppose.

God I have been working all evening, I am knackered and I have a headache. Am going to bed shortly, have not had nearly enough time to piss about on here

Carotte I think you are amazing btw

I don't think I could have done what you are doing

Hats off (or do you like the way the French say it, "Chapeau"?)

Oh yes Franny, I do see. He doesn't sound insecure and clingy AT ALL, he sounds like a child.

All will be well. Sorry about the headache.

I totally understand that Franny. I remember not wanting to be left as a child, and also the fear when I thought I had lost my mum. It is scary and it is awful to think of your child upset, but you take his concerns SERIOUSLY and that is wonderful IMO.

Instead of going to the gym tonight I went shopping Didn't get what I went out for though And I am actioning plans to get out more and meet people.